Microsoft and its great commitment to NFC

At NFC World Congress, Microsoft has taken an in-depth look at all the services it will offer to take advantage of communication technologyNFC.

Choosing to include this type of connection on phones, tablets and computers running Windows 8, goes beyond a simple data transfer files since what you want to achieve is to complete a perfect integration where it is enough to put the mobile on top of the laptop or on top of a tablet, so that our accounts are synchronized, or so that our contacts are updated.

Windows 8 and NFC, a little more than file transfer

The possibilities with NFC technology are many, and Microsoft wants to take advantage of them all by firstly equipping their mobiles with these chips, then offering their native services such as Tap+Sendwhich is enough to position the mobiles back and they will pair to start a file transfer.

Another bet is the integration with external accessories, in the presentation of the Lumia 920 and 820 there was talk of a good number of accessories among which we saw, if we were playing a song, it was enough to position the mobile on top of the accessory and it would start playing wirelessly automatically.

Finally at this NFC World Congress, they talked about the commitment to their own digital wallet, this service that will have its own space in a live-tile of Windows Phone 8 will store all the information of our credit cards, so that in the places where they receive payments with this service it is enough to go the mobile by a sensor and our account will be settled.

Of course Bing will not be left behind, since this search engine will be in charge of providing us with all the offers and prices of the places where we can pay with your mobile.

An important thing that the company mentioned is that security has been paramount for users to trust in using these services without having to worry about information theft. They make this security a reality by separating the services between 'NFC' and 'Wallet'.

In NFC all automatic pairing possibilities are considered, without touching any Wallet service unless a mode that is said to be quite secure is used where we would pay with Wallet through NFC pairing.

For now we have Microsoft betting hard on this technology, for now only with phones, but knowing that all versions of Windows 8 share the same kernel, we can't wait to see tablets with Wallet or laptops that just by positioning it on our table our peripherals and accessories will pair with it automatically.

Via | NFCworld